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Hopefully, this page is an opportunity for family and friends of RBI to catch up with our news, and have a look at some photos, without having to download a large emailed newsletter. Each news item is on a different page to save you having to wait for the whole thing to load up, especially if you have a steam driven computer (Hi Mum and Dad, Hi Ollie). If you like a photo, you should be able to download it to your computer, right click on the image, select save as, choose a directory on your computer. One day, when I have more time and space, this may hold all our archived RBI newsletters, and may become an on-line photo album. Our journalistic creed here at RBI is "Publish first - cop complaints later". It has got us into trouble before (Hi Joy). So if we have published a photo with you in it, and you don't like it, complain and we will remove it! |
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Dallas turns 4 In January 2008 Dallas turned 4. He was allowed a party, but he could only invite one canine friend. He chose Finn, a Kerry Blue Terrier.
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Beer Day 2007 Just before Christmas 2007, Simon had his brewing friends around to swap their best beers for Christmas drinking. Here are all the beers lined up ready. We did a pile of food, including a deep fried turkey.
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Christmas 2006 For Christmas 2006 we did a lunch at our place. As you can see, Dallas and Paddy had a good time.
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Stein beer brewing In July 2006, a bunch of Simons beer friends came round to make a stein beer. This is a German technique dating to when they used wooden barrels as pots. Because they couldnt put the barrel on a fire, they heated the malt by throwing hot rocks into the malt in the barrel. I have a stainless steel pot and a gas burner, but we thought it would be fun to do it with hot rocks anyway.
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First half of 2006 events The bug on the left is one of many living in the places where Simon works in Indonesia. Some photos of Indonesian trips and other events in the first half of 2006 have been loaded as an article.
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Simon's 40th birthday To celebrate Simon's 40th birthday, we had a hangi for about 60 people, and set the new bar up to dispense 6 beers, soda water, gin and tonic, and vodka and soda. |
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First attempt at a hangi We have been thinking about a hangi as a way of feeding lots of people at a party, but we werent sure how it would work in the pure sand we have here in Perth, we wondered if all the steam would escape. So we did a trial small one on a very hot Summers day. |
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Dallas turns one! On 25 January, 2005, Dallas had his first birthday. He was allowed to have a party with Texas and Alabama on Australia Day to celebrate. Fleur knocked up a special birthday cake out of instant mashed potato and frankfurters. |
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Simon goes to Sumatra again In July, 2004, Simon went to work in Sumatra in Indonesia again for a couple of weeks. The bad part fo the trip was when he slipped off a boulder while crossing a stream and broke a bone in his right hand. The good part of the trip was at the end when he managed to hitch a lift on the helicopter flying to Medan, rather than taking the commercial flight. The route to medan goes over some interesting topography including Lake Toba. |
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Simons brew buddies In June, 2004, Simon held a demonstration brew day for all his brewing forum chums. Everyone brought round their best beer, argued over whether it could be improved or not, and helped out while Simon brewed an English Special Bitter. Kind of a "had to be there, and be obsessed with beer" kind of day, but we all had a good time. |
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Balinese gazebo Don't tell Shane, but this is what his ute looked like after Simon borrowed it and went foraging in the jungles of Bayswater. What is the bamboo for? Well, Fleur had this idea about 60's style crazy paving with a kitsch bamboo hut at the end of it. |
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Our new puppy - Dallas Yes we now have 3 Great Danes and No we are not crazy. We just think they have a great temperament and make a really good family dog. They scare away burglars as well. Dallas is related to Texas, he is sort of his Great Nephew. Hence the name. This is a photo of Dallas hanging out with his litter-mates at the breeder. Dallas' page has been updated to the age of 5 months. |
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Beer can beer keg turkey For Christmas 2003, Simon cooked a turkey on the barbecue. Lots of people have heard of beer-can chicken, but not many have actually tried to do it, let alone up-size it to a turkey. It worked pretty well. Click the link below for more details on how to do it. |
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